That’s tragic…. but given my feelings towards that tea, I think it may have been for the best :P Now, had that been Marshmallow Treat? You can bet I’d be picking up each individual piece, crying a little, and putting it into a double finum basket to brew…

I have a bag of like 100grams of pink flamingo, which i don’t even really like, that was spilled on the floor. it couldn’t be sold, so we scooped as much as we could off the top of the pile because we couldn’t bear to see it go in t he garbage.

Hey – it has happened to me! More than once (three times, multiple teas, three different companies)! I would like to get what I’m paying for. Each time, it has been dealt with quite well by the company’s customer service, which is awesome. I don’t always remember to weigh things, though, but most are either bang on or a couple grams over.

When your parents are tea addict themselves and have a growing collection of tea ware that includes 50 yi xing tea pots, 34 bone china cups and saucers, an assortment of ceramic tea cups, one english tea set.

Tried and failed miserably to resist the urge to try out all the different sets of tea ware everyday.

When you drink tea at all hours of the night.

Need tea to comfort you when doing tedious college assignments.

Have tea to accompany most of your meals.

When you find bags, tins, cakes, boxes of tea invading the cupboards in the kitchen AND living room.

When you keep a notebook in order to track steeping times and conditions for every time you steep a pot of tea. My notebook has each tea serving by date drunk, what company/variety it is, steeping time, if I used a pot other than my normal tetsubin, and if I used lower temp water than boiling.

When you can track nearly every pot/cup of tea you have had over the course of the last four years via said notebook.

When your criteria for buying a new mug is “Will it fit the entire contents of my usual tea pot?”